Apollo Levine is a professional actor, performer, choreographer, dancer and music artist. In addition to his lead choreographer and starring role in the dance fitness DVD series, "Shazzy Fitness: A Time to Dance", Apollo has worked on several notable shows with various theater houses including Dreamgirls, Ragtime and Smokey Joe's Café, just to name a few. Apollo has also appeared on the BET hit show "Let's Stay Together" and is currently busy making history by becoming the first ever African-American actor taking on the lead role of the original theatrical show “The Monkey King” based in Beijing, China. Continue reading the New York Fitness Examiner interview to learn more about Apollo and his fitness career!

How did you get your start in fitness?

I've always loved to dance but until about ten years ago had never been an instructor. I moved to Atlanta and was looking for part-time work while I pursued my singing and songwriting career. I interviewed for a hip-hop dance instructor job and was hired on the spot.

As an African American fitness professional how have you impacted or hope to impact the African American community?

My goal is to help educate people everywhere about the health benefits of dance - especially for African-Americans since our community has much higher rates of obesity, hypertension and heart disease. Dance is a great way to help avoid or reduce those health issues.

What's your favorite form of fitness?

Dance is absolutely my favorite way to stay healthy, most of all because it's FUN! Dancing gives you the most wanted benefits of working out - weight loss, higher metabolism, increased endurance - but since it doesn't feel like you're exercising, people are much more likely to stick with it.

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Nadia Murdock discovered her passion for fitness after being faced with the difficulty to eat nutritious meals, stay in shape and juggle college all at the same time. After experiencing a fluctuation in weight loss and gain she has made fitness a way of life and she will help you to do the same. You may contact Nadia with your comments and questions.